Thinking About Prescribing

Our remedies are only as good as the way in which we dispense them That's the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages pharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a psychiatric medication to young patients not simply as part of a clinical visit, but rather as the beginning of an ongoing alliance with youth and their parents or legal guardians. The book makes the case for a partnership that doesn't lean on psychiatric jargon or an encyclopedic list of side eff